, 1887-04-09
SET OUT TREES.
A Duty Which Our Citizens Owe to
Themselves.
The Example Has Been Set and
Should Be Followed.

The most skeptical OF our people can
scarcely doubt that Cheyenne has a future
which is full of prosperity to all who
make OF this city their permanent abiding
place. The events Of the past two weeks
have been such as ought to convince all
thinking men and women that Cheyenne
is destined in the near future to become a
large and iourishing town, with a popula-
ton of from 10000 to 5000. Having
now, as it does, a population which would
number to-day well up to 10000, it will
be less than a decade when this number
will be more than doubled. Such being
the prospects it becomes the duty of our
citizens-a duty they owe to themselves
as well as to the communicate take
every step in their power to improve and
beautify the city, and in no way can this
be done more effectually than by planting
young trees in their yards and lawns in
front of their houses, and in fact every
where on their own lands, and if they
should happen to make a mistake and set
out few somewhere else they probably
would not be prosecuted for it. The time
was once when water could not DO OBJ
tanned here in Cheyenne with which to
nourish and promote the growth, and
there are many here to-day who remem-
Der when fifty cents per barrel was the
price charged for water. This is not the
case at the present time, the fact being
that Cheyenne has an abundance of water
for all purposes and while there may be
times when for a day or a week there may
be an insufficient supply, yet this tempo
rary difficulty in the future as in the past
will usually be speedily removed. Our
water system, while not the most perfect
in the world, is adequate and sufficient to
supply all, and at a price so moderate
that no one who has sufficient of this
worlds goods to enable them to have
and keep a home of their own need go
without it. In fact, the price paid yearly
for an abundant supply for all purposes is
not so large as many of our citizens ex-
pend during the year in going to the the
alter to listen to Prima Donna Miss No.
body, in her screech owl melodies, or
Mr.. Fitzpoodlc in his idiotic mimicry of
somebody who possessed that which he
lacks-brains.
Our citizens should bear in mind that
the experiment Of raising trees in Chey-
anne has been tried and has proved a sue
cess under difficulties such as are not en-
countered at present. There are men in
Cheyenne to-day who set out trees in
front of their homes fifteen years ago,
when the only way to obtain water for
them was to buy it at fifty cents per bar
rel, and yet under such circumstances
kept their trees alive, and some of them
to-day are eighteen inches in diameter.
A case in point are the trees in front of
Governor Warren's residence, which
were set out more than fifteen years age
by Mai. Glaicke, who then resided at that
place. If there were nothing else to be
considered the fact that the growing of
trees and shrubbery around ones home
greatly enhances the value OF the proper
ty ought to be sufficient. The fact is that
it is a paying investment-this planting
of trees upon your grounds and in your
yards, and every citizen of Cheyenne who
possibly can do so ought to plant as many
trees this spring as his or her grounds
admit of, for by so doing the owner of the
property is not only benefited, but it is
helping to make of CHEYENNE a beautiful
and 'fourishing city.